Who Says I'm Jaded

The headmistress looked at me with pity.‘You’re so cynical you know. So… jaded. For a girl your age, you behave like your 30, like you’ve been through it all.’ She said to me, as if telling me would change anything. After all, if I’ve grown up, I can hardly recede back into the juvenile mindset she expected all girls my age to have.‘Then how should I be behaving?’ I asked.‘Like the rest of the